It’s running a little late this year, and that could be a good thing for hunters venturing out for the Nov. 29 opener of the rifle deer season. The rut. Chris Denmon, president of the North Mountain ...

Jack-o-lanterns and whitetail deer have something in common because Halloween is the key timeframe when the whitetail rut in ...

Meanwhile, the 2025 whitetail rut is set to peak in early November here in the Northeast and the Midwest in sharp contrast to last year’s spread out “trickle rut.” This season, unlike last year, the ...

Heading into the woods without a few deer calls isn’t a good plan. Deer use various sounds to communicate with each other from the early part of the season to its end. When you understand the sounds ...